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Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM): Today's Featured Internet Laggard

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Akamai Technologies (
AKAM) pushed the Internet industry lower today making it today's featured Internet laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.2%. By the end of trading, Akamai Technologies fell 80 cents (-2.2%) to $36.27 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 5.5 million shares of Akamai Technologies exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $36-$37.41 after having opened the day at $37.17 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $37.07. Other companies within the Internet industry that declined today were:
Trulia (
TRLA), down 9.4%,
Synacor (
SYNC), down 6.7%,
Tucows (
TCX), down 3.4%, and
Demand Media (
DMD), down 2.3%.

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Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides content delivery and cloud infrastructure services for accelerating and improving applications over the Internet in the United States and internationally. Akamai Technologies has a market cap of $6.64 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.7, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 8.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Akamai Technologies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Akamai Technologies as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.